SUSTN 353 Exam 2 Multiple Choice || All Answers Are Correct 100%.
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What is the consumer culture? correct answers NEEDs become merged with WANTS
objects become symbolic meanings of power and wealth. materialistic views.
Market Exchange correct answers goods and services bought and sold at price determined by supply and demand
Generalized Reciprocity correct ...
SUSTN 353 Exam 2 Multiple Choice || All Answers Are
Correct 100%.
What is the consumer culture? correct answers NEEDs become merged with WANTS
objects become symbolic meanings of power and wealth. materialistic views.
Market Exchange correct answers goods and services bought and sold at price determined by
supply and demand
Generalized Reciprocity correct answers giving and receiving goods with no immediate or
specific return expected.
Ex. !Kung sharing their meat, buying a friend coffee
balanced reciprocity correct answers a mode of exchange in which the giving and the receiving
are specific as to the value of the goods and the time of their delivery
Ex. give a gift to bf/gf, expect something of the same value in a timely manner
negative reciprocity correct answers exchange conducted for the purpose of material advantage
and the desire to get something for nothing
Ex. being super nice to your boss to get a promotion
redistribution correct answers collection of goods by a gov. to give back out
Ex. taxes, food, etc.
affluent society correct answers HUNTER GATHERERS
Needs are met with the available resources
affluence ("wealth") is achieved by wanting little
planned obsolescence correct answers Objects that were specifically designed to break, so that
we have to buy more of it.
Ex. plastic bags, coffee cups, computers, etc.
perceived obsolescence correct answers Another way to keep people buying new objects
Morphs the way we see things (through media and marketing) so that we are more inclined to get
the most "up to date" items
Individualization of responsibility correct answers Somehow shifts the blame from the elites, to
just the middle class and bottom people
Your mother gave you a phone and you gave her a necklace, what kind of exchange is this?
correct answers generalized reciprocity
When there is an increase in wealth, but no increase in happiness, what happens? What is the
cause of this? correct answers It is influenced by relative, rather than absolute, economic position
, Pollan calls hybrid corn "greedy" because it ____ correct answers Consumes more fertilizer!
What key factors allow hybrid corn to produce such high yields? correct answers Hybrid corn
can be planted VERY close together!
What did synthetically fixed nitrogen do to plants? correct answers It freed the plants from the
constraints of nature
According to lecture, which of the following is true regarding techniques such as crop rotations,
polycultures, animal integration, cover crops, etc. correct answers They involve agricultural
methods modeled on ecological principles
Which of the following examples from class does not represent an alternative to industrial food
production? correct answers round up ready cotton
According to Diamond, one reason the Maya collapsed is that Maya agricultural productivity
was limited. correct answers True (Malthusian argument - needed more land when in reality they
had less of it - more people than resources)
According to the McAnany & Negron reading what do the authors mean when they state
Diamond decontextualized the past in his explanation of Maya collapse? Diamond: correct
answers Projected contemporary problems onto the past
McAnany and Negron primarily argue that the 'societal collapse of Maya civilization,' as
discussed by Jared Diamond, is better understood as what? correct answers cultural change
As discussed in lecture, the archaeological sequence of pottery in Marajo Island, Brazil became
more intricate, specialized and detailed the deeper the archaeologists dug, Meggers' states that
this suggests: correct answers Social complexity there had decreased over time
From lecture, Meggers says the lowland tropics in Amazonia are a "counterfeit paradise"
because: correct answers The look lush, but can't support intensive agriculture
According to the 'persistent tendency towards depletion theory' mentioned by Orlove, why are
stable fishing profics a good indicator of sustainable resource use? It demonstrates: correct
answers Stable fishing profits are a problematic indicator of sustainable resource
In Lines in the Water, who regulates fishing activities around Lake Titicaca within the TURFS
property regime? correct answers Local villages/resource user
Per our discussion last lecture, "What is nature?" we left off with the definitive definition that
nature is: correct answers Nature doesn't have a definitive definition
When was chemical fertilizer produced? correct answers 1947
What is the Haber-Bosch process, and why is it important? correct answers synthetic nitrogen
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